Leveraging Cultural Capital In The Math Classroom - An Interview with Thomasenia Lott Adams
Today we speak with Thomasenia Lott Adams from the University of Florida --- Go Gators! Thomasenia is a mathematics teacher educator/researcher with numerous accolations for teaching and the work she does with pre-service teachers. We speak with Tomasenia today about how we can use students’ cultural capital to empower learning, why promoting student voice is so important in math class, and why increasing the number of meaningful “touch points” in math class helps amplify student voice. You’ll Learn: How we can use students' cultural capital to empower learning in the math classroom; Why promoting student voice in the math classroom is so important; How you can strengthen mathematics literacy in your classroom. Why increasing the number of meaningful “touch points” in math class helps amplify student voice? Resources: NCTM → https://www.nctm.org/ NCSM → https://www.mathedleadership.org/ Solution Tree Book Series DNAMath → http://www.dnamath.com/ Full Problem Based Lessons a Units Use our fully developed problem based lessons and units in your classroom to spark curiosity and fuel sense making with your students. We not only give you the resources to make math moments we give you a full teacher guide that walks you through the Make Math Moments 3 Part Framework. View the catalogue : https://makemathmoments.com/tasks/